Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An 80-year-old St. Paul woman, who was the daughter of a Minnesota legislator, died during a water emergency in northern Minnesota ...

For years, Lake Vermilion and Lake Kabetogama seemed special. As Minnesota’s other large and heavily fished lakes fell one-by-one to zebra mussel infestations, the two sprawling wooded giants in ...

3/20: Jeff Makela, of Superior, caught this 28-inch native brown trout from a small spring pond in Bayfield County. It was caught July 19, 2025, after a morning rain storm. "I hope to share the story ...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's dream of turning undeveloped Lake Vermilion shoreline into a state park has taken a giant step forward. Several years of negotiations between U.S. Steel, which owns the property, ...

The 2025 Minnesota fishing opener is this Saturday, May 10th. Many Northland lakes will have cold waters, with the likes of Lake Vermilion icing out May 4th, Caribou Lake on May 6th and Round Lake not ...